recommendations for a 64-bit laptop with ECC memory?

[Konstantin Svist]

Kam Leo wrote:
> On 6/24/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
>> At 12:47 AM -0700 6/24/07, Konstantin Svist wrote:
>> >I think you're missing the point here.
>> >ECC ram will not guard against failures, it will simply reduce the
>> >probability of a failure. In other words, it just prolongs the 
>> inevitable.
>>  ...
>>
>> No.  ECC RAM does guard against RAM failures; that is exactly what it is
>> for and what it does.  Without ECC failures are undetected and produce 
>> bad
>> data.  ECC turns those into detected failures with good data.  ECC 
>> prevents
>> almost all RAM data errors, and allows detection of faulty RAM, 
>> allowing it
>> to be replaced before total or unrecoverable failures, while preventing
>> transient soft errors from accumulating as bad data.
>> -- 
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> 
> Laptop computers use SODIMM memory modules. Most laptops have two
> sockets for memory. Do a search and see if you can find any 2 GB with
> ECC DDR2 SODIMM modules.  If your laptop is custom ordered you might
> get ECC memory pre-installed.otherwise you will have to do it
> yourself.
> 

And don't forget that the motherboard must support the ECC feature, as 
well. In case of AMD CPUs (more specifically, ones with on-CPU memory 
controllers), the CPU should support ECC, as well.